Water-power engine.



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WAT APPLIO ATION FILED NOV. 1, 1907.

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citizen of the United States, residing at St. be driven. ouis, Missouri, have invented a certain new with a fly-wheel 3 and a plurality of cranks 4 operated by water vide an engine of the character described which can be operated by a comparatively small quantity or amount of water, thus enabling the eng the water supply 18 not great enough to actute a water wheel or turbine.

an engine provided with a plurality connected by lmks to pistons which operate piston therein and thus impart a half revolution to the drive shaft, and the force of the therein so as to complete the revolution of the drive shaft.

the preferred form of my invention, 1 d

tes a drive shaft which is provided with a MICHAEL HAUGHEY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. WATER-POWER ENGINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 16, 1908. Application filed November 1, 1907. Serial No. 400,202.

pulley 2 for receiving a belt, not shown, that is used for actuating the machine which is to e drive shaft 1 is provided and 5 to which links 6 and 7 are connected,

* and 7 of pistons 6 and 7 to which it apperl which operate in open-ended cylinders A and *ngines, of which the following is a full, clear, 3 said links being fastened respectively, to the e ranged side by side, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 3 is an enan the upper ends of the cylinders lie in the same horizontal plane. A movable standpipe 11, which holds a large quantity of waer, is pivotally connected at its upper end to r e frame, preferably by means of trunnions 12 that rest in the cross-bars 13 of the frame and the lower end of said stand-pipe termipower. nates adjacent the upper ends of the cyline main object of my invention is to proders.

' A slide 14 provided with an o ening which I is surrounded by an upward y projecting e used at places where inder A and thereafter into almement with the cylinder B to introduce water into same Iy invention, briefly described, consists in a drive shaft having of cranks or eccentrics that are nect the cranks on the drive shaft to the pisown for reciprocating the slide 14 that oscillates the stand-pipe, consists of a plurality to actuate the y means of links 16 and 17 to the to actuate the piston tively, on the fly-wheel, and two sets of bell crank levers and links connecting the straight eferring to the drawings which illustrate straight lever 19 to the bell crank lever 17. esig- I have designated the set of levers and links which connect the levers l8 and 16 together by the reference character X and those which connect the levers 19 and 17 together character Y and I prefer to provide each of said sets with an adjustable ink X that may be shortened or lengthened to vary the throw of the bell crank levers 16 and 17 so as to properly position the slide which actuates the stand-pipe.

Preferably, a hood or cup 22 is arranged at the upper ends of the cylinders A and to receive the water which is displaced from said cylinders by the upward movement 0 the pistons therein, the bottom of said cup being inclined and provided with openings which receive the branches 23 of a discharge pipe 23, as shown in Fig. 1 and in dotted ines in Fig. 2. The water can be conducted to the upper end of the stand-pipe suitable means, not shown, and for enabling the engine to be stopped I have provided t 1e stand-pipe at its upper end with a valve, the stern of which is provided with an arm 2 to which an operating rod 25 is securec The operation of the engine is as follows: When the stand-pipe is in the position shown in Fig. 1 and also in full lines in Fig. 3, water will enter the upper end of the cylinder A and thus depress the piston therein so as to impart half a revolution to the drive shaft 1. The rotary movement of the drive shaft causes the pin or projection 21 on the flywheel to engage the inner end of the straight lever 19 and thus actuate same so as to operate the bell crank lever 17 and thereby move the slide 14 so as to carry the lower end 0 the standipe 11 into alinement with the upper end 0'? the cylinder B, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 3. As the water rushes into the c linder B it will depress the piston therein and thus complete the revolution of the drive shaft and when the pin 20 on the fly-wheel engages the inner end of the straight lever 18 the bell crank lever 16 will be operated to oscillate the stand-pipe in the opposite direction back into alinement with the upper end of the cylinder A. The engine will continue to o erate so long as the valve in the upper end of the stand-pipe is 0 en, the drive shaft being rotated continuous y in the same direction by the pistons which are operated intermittently by the water in the stand-pipe the water being displaced from the cylinders into the cup 20 by the upward movement 0 the pistons. The length of the standpipe, of course, is immaterial so far as my roa idea is concerned but I have found that an stand-pipe a out reat deal of rovided with cylinders which have ut it will, of course, be understood that I could use cylinders whic were open at their upper ends and provided closed ends with ports or openings to e therefrom as the pistons reciprocated bac r and forth.

I also wish to have it understood that my broad idea 18 not limited to any particular mechanism for oscillating the standpipe, the mechanism herein shown being simply one of many forms of devices that could be used for accomplishing that result. iile I have herein shown the cylinders as being arranged vertically it will, of course, be obvious that the cylinders could be arranged horizontally and the stand-pipe so designed that it would introduce water into one end of the cylinders. Furthermore, my broad idea is not limited to a construction in which only two cylinders are employed as four or SlX cylinders could be used without departing from the spirit of my invention, the actuating mechanism or the stand pipe being so designed that water would be introduced intermittently into the different cylinders.

Having 'hus described my invention, what I. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An engine of comprising a drive in their permit the air to esca the character described, shaft, a plurality of cylinders having pistons which are eccentrically connected to the drive shaft, an oscillating stand-pipe having its lower end terminating adjacent one end of the cylinders, a slice mounted in stationary guideways and provided with a flange that receives the lower end of the stand-pipe, and two sets of automatically operated levers connected to the opposite ends of said slide for actuating it to move the stand-pipe into alinement wit one cylinder and thereafter into alinement with the other cylinder; substantially as described.

2. An engine of the character cescribed, comprising a drive shaft provided with cranks, a plurality of cylinders having pistons which are connected to said cranks, an oscillating stand -pipe which contains a quantity of water, a slide connected to the lower end of said stand-pipe, bell crank levers connected by links to the opposite ends of said slide, a fly-wheel on the drive shaft, and mechanism actuated by said fly-wheel or actuating said bell crank levers to move sair slide and thus carry the lower end of the stand-pipe into alinement with one cylinder and thereafter into alinement with the other cylinder; substantially as described.

3. An engine of the character described, comprising a drive shaft provided with cranks and a fly-wheel, a plurality of openended cylinders having pistons which are connected to said cranks, an oscillating standpi e having its lower end terminating aqacent the upper ends of said cylinders, a reciprocating slide mounted in guides and conp In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my t slgnature in the presence of two Witnesses, opposite ends of said slide, straight levers t is twenty-ninth day of October, 1907.

L, MICHAEL HAUGHEY 5 fly-Wheel, anc means for transmitting the Witnesses:

WELLs L. OHUROH, GEORGE BAKEWELL 

